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Embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's quiet personal trip to Metro Vancouver for a funeral set the Canadian Twitterverse on fire late Friday night after he was written up for jaywalking near a busy Coquitlam thoroughfare.
Ford refused to comment Saturday on claims that he was drunk in a nearby pub the previous night, when he stepped out briefly from the Best Western Hotel where he's staying in Coquitlam.

Karen and Murray Frank have a hefty stack of documents describing the twists and turns in a nightmare feud with the Coquitlam school district. The collection includes a police apology for a botched investigation, an apology from the Insurance Corp. of B.C. for an illegal computer search of their personal information by an employee and a compensation award for their young daughter, found to be a victim of a crime by a teacher at Blakeburn elementary in Port Coquitlam.

When 18-year-old Bernadette Beck landed a supporting role in a feature film she knew right away she wanted to use her good fortune to reach out to other teens. Beck will be sharing screen time with actors Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche when the indie drama Words and Pictures begins shooting in Vancouver in March.

Hundreds of people in Surrey and more than 40 cities around the world lit candles Friday evening to remember bullying victim Amanda Todd and to take a quiet stand against the kind of torment that led her to take her own life.

There is the Amanda Todd that the world came to know. That is the Amanda who was harassed, stalked and bullied in an ordeal that started in cyberspace and spread to the schoolyard, and who at 15 took her own life.

The RCMP said Tuesday that information released by an international hacktivist group identifying a Vancouver-area man as Amanda Todd’s tormentor is “unfounded,” and warned against the spread of false information through social media.

‘Stay Strong.’ That was the tattoo chosen by Amanda Todd, reflecting the motto she adopted after years of bullying and harassment both online and in real life. She recently asked her father Norm to accompany her to a tattoo shop. Both were planning to get tattoos representing the Chinese symbol for strength. Amanda was also going to get another tattoo, one with the words ‘Stay Strong” on her arm.

Amanda Todd’s mother, Carol Todd, doesn’t want other children to suffer as her daughter did — stalked and harassed by bullies in cyberspace and in the schoolyard, by people she knew and by stalkers many miles away. Amanda told her story in the heart-wrenching video that chronicled her nightmare: the taunts, the beating, the cyber-stalker who tracked her down whenever she tried to start afresh at a new school — firing off images that captured her showing off her young body, flattered by online attention from someone she thought was a kid just like her.

Amanda Todd’s mother, Carol Todd, doesn’t want other children to suffer as her daughter did — stalked and harassed by bullies in cyberspace and in the schoolyard, by people she knew and by stalkers many miles away. Amanda told her story in the heart-wrenching video that chronicled her nightmare: the taunts, the beating, the cyber-stalker who tracked her down whenever she tried to start afresh at a new school — firing off images that captured her showing off her young body, flattered by online attention from someone she thought was a kid just like her.

Amanda Todd’s mother, Carol Todd, doesn’t want other children to suffer as her daughter did — stalked and harassed by bullies in cyberspace and in the schoolyard, by people she knew and by stalkers many miles away. Amanda told her story in the heart-wrenching video that chronicled her nightmare: the taunts, the beating, the cyber-stalker who tracked her down whenever she tried to start afresh at a new school — firing off images that captured her showing off her young body, flattered by online attention from someone she thought was a kid just like her.

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